Intubated Patients
Nurses’ Knowledge and Practice Regarding Oral Care in Intubated Patients at Selected Teaching Hospitals, Chitwan
... findings showed that 63.2% of respondents’ level of knowledge was adequate whereas 80.5% level of practice was poor. The level of knowledge was significantly associated with working institute and level of practice was ...
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Reduced Fasting Protocol for Endoscopic Percutaneous Gastrostomy in Intubated Patients
... There are theoretical reasons why intubated patients may not benefit from pre-procedural fasting. Fasting does not guarantee an empty stomach. Gastric contents contain a mixture of feedings, gastric and ...
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Multiresistant coagulase negative staphylococci disseminate frequently between intubated patients in a multidisciplinary intensive care unit
... vulnerable patients to colonization of resistant organisms prone to cause ...between patients is also reported to increase due to under- staffing, with limited possibilities to maintain good hygienic ...
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Characterization of Cell to Cell Signaling Deficient Pseudomonas aeruginosa Strains Colonizing Intubated Patients
... CF patients but are uncommon in other clinical situations ...two patients infected with the AI-deficient strains 64C4 and 64C2 were initially cocolonized with strains of the cell-to-cell signal- ...
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Composition and dynamics of the respiratory tract microbiome in intubated patients
... individuals. (1) Intubated patients typically receive broad spectrum antibiotics, often before cultures are obtained. Antibiotics may turn cultures negative, but since se- quence analysis does not depend on ...
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Loss of Bacterial Diversity during Antibiotic Treatment of Intubated Patients Colonized with Pseudomonas aeruginosa
... from intubated patients colonized by ...from patients briefly intubated for elective surgery but were detected by PCR in samples from all patients intubated for longer ...of ...
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Negative versus positive pressure ventilation in intubated patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome
... in patients without endotracheal tubes [18] with the head placed outside the tank as commonly practiced ...studying intubated patients, it was not necessary to place the head outside the tank (Figure ...
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Dexmedetomidine vs haloperidol in delirious, agitated, intubated patients: a randomised open label trial
... in intubated patients, although patients expected to be soon weaned from mechanical venti- lation are generally prescribed propofol, while others are given ...
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Correlation Between the End-Tidal CO2 (EtCO2) and Decreased Cardiac Output Measured by Ultrasonic Cardiac Output Monitor (USCOM) for Intubated Patients in ICU
... The sampling was done by using a total popu- lation sample. The eligible intubated patients were observed for EtCO 2 and then were measured for the cardiac output using USCOM. The result of this study was ...
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THE EFFECT OF ORAL CARE INTERVENTION ON ORAL HEALTH STATUS OF INTUBATED PATIENTS IN THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT
... in intubated patients despite oral care ...in intubated patients such as increased potential for dental plaque, decreased salivary flow and protection, risk of xerostomia due to open mouth and ...
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Bacterial Flora as Determinants of Ventilator Associated Pneumonia in Intubated Patients in an Intensive Care Unit
... in patients with VAP noted that empirical therapy has been classified as appropriate/adequate or inappropriate/inadequate based on the in vitro susceptibilities of the identified ...of patients had at least ...
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Nasogastric tube insertion in anesthetized and intubated patients: a new and reliable method
... the patients enrolled into this study were ran- domly allocated into two groups (the control group and the stylet group) according to a computerized, random-allocation software program ...
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Novel preventive strategies for ventilator associated pneumonia
... pneumonia. Intubated patients may be more prone to develop VAP as compared to tracheo- stomized patients because the ETT keeps the trachea and the oropharynx in communication, acting as a bridge for ...
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Nursing care patients intubated: continuing education as a tool for the care of implementation
... to patients with TOT result in behaviors and attitudes not care for nursing professionals such as not checking the cuff pressure, not centralization TOT and inadequate oral hygiene (Albini et ...for ...
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Alveolar pentraxin 3 as an early marker of microbiologically confirmed pneumonia: a threshold-finding prospective observational study
... in intubated ICU patients [3], but it generally takes 48 hours to obtain results ...these patients being given unnecessary antibiotics until culture results become available ...ill patients ...
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Helium in the adult critical care setting
... COLD-COPD patients demonstrating a beneficial effect, mainly by a reduction in the resistive inspiratory work of breathing but also by a reduction in ...helium-treated patients but not in intubated ...
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Reliability of respiratory pressure measurements in ventilated and non-ventilated patients in ICU: an observational study
... is intubated with the balloon inflated or because the measurement was carried out over 20 s when the patients were intubated ...for intubated patients but is not reliable in extubated ...
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Noninvasive assessment of airflows by electrical impedance tomography in intubated hypoxemic patients: an exploratory study
... hypoxemic patients [16], our data might have increased the clinical relevance of airflows moni- toring by ...hypoxemic patients, yielding bedside noninvasive continuous assess- ment of ...understand ...
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Original Article Analysis of the risk factors of peripherally inserted central catheter-associated venous thrombosis after chemotherapy in patients with lung cancer
... level, intubated veins, fre- quent elbow bending after intubation, labor strength, administration of prophylaxis dose and anticoagulant drugs, tumor, chemotherapy history, and PICC/CVC intubation history were the ...
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Study of clinical profile of patients intubated and those on non invasive ventilation in Emergency Medicine Department
... were intubated, 16 subjects had GCS of less than 15 and 41 subjects had GCS 15 (intubated due to abnormal ...10 patients with NIV failure and later intubated had GCS of 15/15 on initial ...
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